Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut
(1922–2007)

Kurt Vonnegut

Works

Novels

• Player Piano (1952)
• Sirens of Titan (1959)
• Mother Night (1962)
• Cat's Cradle (1963)
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1966)
• Breakfast of Champions (1973)
• Slapstick (1976)
• Jailbird (1979)
• Deadeye Dick (1982)
• Galapagos (1985)
• Bluebeard (1987)
• Hocus Pocus (1990)
• Timequake (1997)

Collections

• Canary in a Cat House (1961, short stories)
• Welcome to the Monkey House (1968, short stories)
• Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) (1974, non-fiction)
• Palm Sunday (1981, non-fiction)
• Fates Worse Than Death (1991, non-fiction)
• Bagombo Snuff Box (1999, short stories)
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999, transcription of short radio dramas)
• A Man Without a Country (2005, non-fiction)
• Armageddon in Retrospect (2008, non-fiction and short stories)
• Look at the Birdie (2009, short stories)
• While Mortals Sleep (2011, short stories)
• Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941–1943 (2012, juvenilia)
• We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012, two novellas)
• Sucker's Portfolio (2013, short stories)
• If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (2013, speeches)
• Complete Stories (2017, short stories)
• High School Journalist, Promoter, Jester: Kurt Vonnegut in the Shortridge Daily Echo, 1937–1940 (2023, juvenilia) (transcription project)

Other works

• Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971, play)
• Between Time and Timbuktu (1972, teleplay based on elements of Vonnegut's previous writings with a new preface by Vonnegut)
• Sun, Moon, Star (1982, children's book)
• Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (1988)
• Like Shaking Hands with God (1999, conversation with Lee Stringer)
• Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2012)
• Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2014)
• Kurt Vonnegut Drawings (2014)
• Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (2019, conversations compiled with co-author Suzanne McConnell)
• Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 (2020)

Short stories

• “2 B R 0 2 B” (1962)
• “The Big Trip Up Yonder” (1954, later retitled “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”)
• “Unready to Wear” (1954)

Works about Vonnegut

• Board of Education v. Pico, a 1982 court case about banning several books, including Slaughterhouse-Five
• "'Being Alive is a Crock of Shit' - Kurt Vonnegut's Kind Pessimism" (2015) (start transcription)
• "Psychological aspects of the explication of category of expressivness in art translation" (2017) (start transcription)
• "Time Travel in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five" (2018) (start transcription)
• "Vonnegut, Darwin, and the Tragical Satirical Arc of Human History in the Novel Galapagos" (2020) (start transcription)
• "Memory and Testimony in Extraordinary Times" (2021) (start transcription)